The First Sword of the Universe

Chapter 515 Senior and junior sisters sit in a row.
When Li Qiushui arrived at Mantuo Mountain Villa and saw camellias covering the mountains and fields, she was lost in thought and recalled the wonderful time she spent living in seclusion in Wuliang Mountain, Dali.

His face was filled with sighs and emotions!

When Madam Wang saw her, she was initially surprised and excited, but her reaction quickly turned to indifference.

Back then, she was just a little girl. Her parents left Jianhu Palace one after the other and never returned.

Perhaps she happened to be out and didn't see the two of them return. But in the end, they gave up on themselves.

Decades have passed, and now, first, his father, Wu Yazi, appeared at the nearby Dayu Manor, and then his mother suddenly came to claim kinship.
She did feel a stirring of familial affection, but the resentment that had festered in her heart for many years was not something that could be easily resolved.

Wang Yuyan didn't experience her mother's story, so she was somewhat indifferent to it. Whether she met her maternal grandfather Wuyazi or her maternal grandmother Li Qiushui, she could get along with them peacefully.

Li Qiushui was unimpressed by her daughter's reaction. She stared at Madam Wang for a long time, then sighed a few times.

If Madam Wang hadn't known she couldn't beat her mother, she probably would have shut herself off from visitors.

In the days that followed, Li Qiushui stayed at Mantuo Villa, recuperating from her injuries while looking for an opportunity to mend the rift between her and her daughter.

Often, Madam Wang would not give her a kind look, but she never lacked anything in terms of food, clothing, or shelter.

Most of the time, Li Qiushui would summon Wang Yuyan and ask her some questions.

When she learned that Wang Yuyan had learned the Northern Darkness Divine Skill and the Lingbo Steps from the master of Dayu Manor, she was taken aback and couldn't quite understand what he was thinking.

However, the martial arts he passed down returned to his granddaughter through that person, which is a strange cycle.

Besides that, she asked most about Wuyazi.

To avoid worrying his daughter and granddaughter, Wu Yazi did not tell Wang Yuyan about his near-collapse injuries.

Therefore, Li Qiushui only learned from Wang Yuyan that her senior brother Wuyazi, her senior sister, and Master Xu of Dayu Manor often sat together to discuss martial arts.

She found the news somewhat unbelievable, yet also felt it was perfectly reasonable.

The memories of her and her senior brother Wuyazi creating the Lingbo Weibu (a martial arts technique) together are still vivid in her mind.

But what right does that young junior have to sit down and discuss the Dao with his senior brothers and sisters?
Even if he is highly skilled in martial arts, the accumulation of martial arts knowledge is not something that can be achieved overnight.

Li Qiushui couldn't figure out the reason, so she could only put this puzzle aside for the time being.

Half a month later, after healing her emotional trauma, she set off with her granddaughter Wang Yuyan to Dayu Manor.

Now that she knew her senior brother was also at Dayu Manor, she couldn't just rush in and cause trouble for her senior sister.

So he decided to take a roundabout approach and see if he could meet his senior brother.

We arrived at the entrance of Big Fish Manor inside the valley.

There was a knock on the gate, and someone quickly came to open it.

That was a woman from the Nine Heavens and Nine Departments of Lingjiu Palace. Upon seeing that it was Wang Yuyan, she politely invited her in.

But when she saw Li Qiushui following behind her, she was immediately startled.

A month ago, she witnessed the battle between Li Qiushui and Master Xu and her lord. How could she not recognize this junior sister who came from the same sect as her lord?

She dared not stop them, gently closed the courtyard gate, and led the two to the main hall of the central courtyard.

Xu Xingchen was in his study organizing his martial arts knowledge when he heard the women from the Nine Heavens and Nine Departments report, and he was somewhat surprised: "...They still met."

He got up and left the study, went to the main hall, greeted Wang Yuyan first, and then smiled at Li Qiushui and said, "Congratulations, senior, on recognizing your daughter and granddaughter."

"You're too kind, Master Xu." Li Qiushui didn't dwell on the incident from a month ago when Xu Xingchen refused to tell her about her daughter during their battle. Her expression was calm, but with an undisguised urgency: "Is my senior brother, Wuyazi, at your manor?"

Xu Xingchen knew that Wu Yazi's whereabouts could no longer be concealed, and nodded with a faint smile: "That's right, Senior Wu Yazi is a guest here."

Li Qiushui's eyes lit up, and she immediately asked, "Where is he? Take me to see him quickly!"

Xu Xingchen said meaningfully, "You should have already guessed where he is, senior."

Li Qiushui was slightly taken aback: "So it really is in that cave behind?"

Xu Xingchen nodded: "Senior Wuyazi is healing there, and Granny Tong is guarding him day and night."

Li Qiushui frowned and said, "What? Senior Brother is injured? Who in this world could hurt him?"

Xu Xingchen recounted the events, which indeed enraged Li Qiushui. She gritted her teeth and said bitterly that she would definitely kill Ding Chunqiu in the future to avenge her senior brother.

It also resolved a long-standing doubt in my mind.

No wonder my senior brother never returned after leaving Wuliang Mountain. It turns out he was ambushed by his wicked disciple Ding Chunqiu and knocked off a cliff. All these years he has been hiding in the shadows, barely surviving.
Thinking of all this, Li Qiushui felt a pang of pain in her heart, and felt even more guilty about her senior brother's misunderstanding and her remarriage.

Then, she couldn't wait to go to the cave to see her senior brother.

Xu Xingchen realized that Li Qiushui's words came from the heart, and thus knew that the Li Qiushui of this world was not having an affair with the Starry Night Old Monster Ding Chunqiu.

However, she needed someone's permission to go to the cave behind the mountain.

It was none other than Wu Xingyun, the Child Granny of Tianshan!
Although the cave behind the manor was his territory, it was temporarily occupied by Wu Yazi and Wu Xingyun. As the owner, he could not lead others there to disturb them without permission.

Just as Xu Xingchen was in a dilemma, the woman from the Nine Heavens and Nine Departments of Lingjiu Palace who had led Li Qiushui and Wang Yuyan in came in again. She first bowed to Xu Xingchen, and then turned to Li Qiushui and said respectfully, "The Venerable Master already knows that you have come and has asked me to take you there."

It turned out that after bringing Li Qiushui and Wang Yuyan to the main hall, the woman quickly went to the cave behind the mountain to inform her master of the news.

After thinking it over, Wu Xingyun realized that he could no longer hide the matter of his junior brother Wu Yazi from his junior sister, so he asked her to take Li Qiushui there for a while.

Seeing that Wu Xingyun had made a decision, Xu Xingchen breathed a sigh of relief and followed Li Qiushui and Wang Yuyan out of the main hall and headed towards the back of the manor.

When the four of them arrived at the foot of that cliff, they saw thirty-six stone statues in various shapes and sizes lined up in a row.

Li Qiushui paused for a moment, then slowed her pace.

Wang Yuyan had visited the manor many times, but had never been to this place before. This was the first time she had seen these thirty-six statues.

His eyes held both amazement and surprise.

Although these statues were rough and looked unfinished, they could not hide their alluring and charming temperament. However, she did not understand why the faces of these statues were all bald.
Which woman's image were these stone statues modeled after? Suddenly, she remembered the jade statue that had forced her to wear a veil when she went out, causing a great sensation outside Suzhou.
After thinking for a moment, she looked at Xu Xingchen with a strange expression, wanting to ask, but when her gaze fell on her grandmother, she gave up the idea.

At that moment, the clanging and banging sounds coming from another direction suddenly became clear to her ears.

Turning to look at the other side of the cliff, I saw many men with hammers and chisels, carving stone statues into the rock face.

The stone statues there are all ten feet tall, and there are also thirty-six of them, making them far more eye-catching than the stone statues here.

Moreover, the thirty-six stone statues had been carved with eyebrows, eyes, and facial features, clearly resembling the Heavenly Child Granny.

On her previous visits to the mountain villa, Wang Yuyan had noticed the clanging and banging as stone statues were being carved. At the time, she assumed that the villa owner, Xu Xingchen, wanted to carve something to decorate the villa's landscape.

On those occasions, I didn't notice anything amiss, but now, upon closer inspection, I realize that the stone statues are almost completely carved, and the progress is incredibly fast.

Li Qiushui had another set of thoughts in her mind.

When she came to the manor to cause trouble last time, she used a captivating voice from the start, causing all the deaf and mute disciples carving stone statues to stop what they were doing and begin to fight back.

So at that time, although she saw those stone statues, she didn't pay much attention to them.

Most importantly, the thirty-six statues on the mountain wall had not yet been carved with eyebrows, eyes, ears, and noses, and the body sculpting was also very rough, so I did not recognize them as my senior sister's statues.

nowadays.

She glanced at the thirty-six ten-zhang-tall statues that were almost finished over there, then looked at the thirty-six three-zhang-tall statues over here, her expression strange and tinged with mockery.

"Master Xu, are these statues perhaps sculpted to resemble me?"

Wang Yuyan's face showed a "I knew it" expression.

Xu Xingchen said with a faint smile, "Senior guessed correctly. I moved the jade statue from the bottom of Sword Lake Palace back to the manor, and based on the thirty-six portraits you left on the scroll, I created these thirty-six statues."

Li Qiushui asked with a half-smile, "Aren't the thirty-six portraits on the scroll beautiful?"

Xu Xingchen showed no embarrassment whatsoever and sincerely praised, "Beautiful! Absolutely beautiful! Those drawings must have been done by the senior himself; the skill is superb and the images are lifelike."

Wang Yuyan sensed that there seemed to be another meaning in their conversation, but because she didn't know the whole story, she was completely baffled.

Li Qiushui snorted lightly, a hint of pride flashing in her eyes. She glanced back at the statues on the opposite mountain wall, some majestic, some domineering, some indifferent, and some arrogant, and said with a smile, "But my senior sister was dissatisfied when she saw my statues, so she had people carve those statues over there."

Xu Xingchen didn't know how to answer this question, because he knew that Wu Xingyun in the nearby cave would definitely be able to hear their conversation.

So he said vaguely, "The two seniors are as beautiful as fairies. It would be a pity if they were not sculpted and preserved for posterity."

Ignoring Xu Xingchen's attempts to smooth things over, Li Qiushui pressed on, "Then why aren't there any facial features carved on my statues? Was my senior sister stopping them?"

Xu Xingchen shook his head and said, "When I had these stone statues carved, I used some martial arts practitioners who were not skilled in carving. So after they carved a rough outline, I had them temporarily put on strike."

"The people carving stone statues on that mountain wall nowadays are disciples of the Deaf-Mute School under Master Congbian, a disciple of the late Wuyazi. Many of them are skilled in stone carving, so their carvings are quite impressive."

Li Qiushui gave an "oh," then looked away and turned to Xu Xingchen: "Since Su Xinghe is my senior brother's disciple and also my junior disciple, if his disciples can carve a stone statue for my senior sister, they can naturally carve a stone statue for me as well."

"Master Xu, don't you agree?"

Xu Xingchen didn't take the bait, instead saying, "Senior should ask Mr. Congbian about this matter."

At this moment, Wu Xingyun's voice came from a cave not far away: "Junior sister, now that you're here, why are you only talking to Master Xu outside? Why don't you come in quickly and see your junior brother?"

"Is it because you feel ashamed to face your junior brother after you married someone else?"

Li Qiushui's eyes darkened, but her voice became incredibly soft and alluring: "Senior sister, you're overthinking it."

"My senior brother and I were husband and wife for one night, yet we have a bond that lasts a hundred days. The feelings between us are not something you, an 'outsider,' can judge."

Wu Xingyun snorted coldly: "You are already a thing of the past. Now you are the Empress Dowager of the Western Xia Kingdom. Junior Brother will never forgive your betrayal."

Upon hearing this, Li Qiushui's eyes grew even colder. She strode towards the cave, her voice carrying inside: "That's not necessarily true."

The moment she stepped into the cave, her eyes widened in surprise.

A snow-covered cave covered in frost, with a huge crystal ice ball in the center and a small figure imprisoned and frozen inside the ice ball.

Looking at the unusual scene before her, a thought flashed through her mind: "Is this the healing method that the three of them came up with?"

Wang Yuyan, who followed closely behind into the cave, was also stunned by the scene before her.

Near the crystal ice ball, Wu Xingyun, dressed in white, sat cross-legged on the ground. His sidelong glances were filled with provocation and dissatisfaction, but after a cold snort, he turned his gaze back to Wu Yazi in the crystal ice ball.

She didn't want to fight Li Qiushui in this cave, lest she disturb her junior brother's important healing process.

Li Qiushui had no intention of making a move. She had already learned from Xu Xingchen how serious her senior brother's injuries were, and she dared not disturb him.

For a moment, the two, who were originally at odds, fell silent after meeting.

next moment.

Li Qiushui strode to the crystal ice ball where red and green lights rose and fell, carefully examining the face inside that, although transformed into a seven or eight-year-old child, still retained some familiar features. Her heart couldn't help but tremble.

She wanted to touch the crystal ice ball, but was afraid of disturbing her senior brother's healing.

After a while.

She went to the other side of the crystal ice ball, sat cross-legged, and stood quietly guarding Wu Yazi, one on the left and one on the right, with Wu Xingyun on the right.

The woman from the Nine Heavens and Nine Departments who led the way brought the person to the vicinity of the cave and then turned and left.

Xu Xingchen and Wang Yuyan stood together, looking left at Wu Xingyun, right at Li Qiushui, and finally at Wuyazi, who was sleeping in the central ice hockey puck.

For a moment, Xu Xingchen's face revealed a gloating smile, thinking to himself, "The moment Senior Wuyazi emerges from seclusion, he will face the hellish ordeal of his senior and junior sisters."

"That scene must be absolutely spectacular!"

Wang Yuyan was speechless at the scene before her.

(End of this chapter)